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LibriVox recording of Clog Shop Chronicles, by John Ackworth. Read by Phil Benson.
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his works. Set in the fictional 19th-century village of Beckside (said to be somewhere between Manchester and Bolton), the book consists of 12 tales of everyday life in a close-knit Methodist community, which continue into Beckside Lights (1897) and Doxy Dent (1899). Based on an entertaining group of characters who gather round the clog shop fire, the stories are sentimental at times, but Ackworth has a nice sense of irony and refrains from Methodist proselytizing. Ackworth was also a student of the Lancashire dialect and the spoken passages in his books are mostly written in a phonetic version of late 19th-century Bolton speech, which I have done my best to reproduce. (Summary by Phil Benson)
M4B format available
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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio
Artist/Composer: John Ackworth
Date: 2012-01-24
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; fiction; Lancashire; Methodism; village life
Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal
| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| 01 - An atonement |
20.6 MB
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12.1 MB
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10.3 MB
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| 02 - Billy Botch |
30.3 MB
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17.7 MB
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15.1 MB
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| 03 - Hanging his hat up |
28.0 MB
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16.4 MB
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14.0 MB
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| 04 - Giving a man away |
19.0 MB
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10.9 MB
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9.5 MB
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| 05 - Tatty Entwhistle's return |
23.3 MB
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13.7 MB
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11.7 MB
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| 06 - Coals of fire |
19.8 MB
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11.7 MB
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9.9 MB
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| 07 - The knocker up |
20.2 MB
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12.1 MB
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10.1 MB
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| 08 - For better or worse: The dilemma |
18.9 MB
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11.3 MB
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9.5 MB
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| 09 - For better or worse: The denouement |
17.2 MB
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10.0 MB
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8.6 MB
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| 10 - 'Bullet' pie |
22.7 MB
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13.4 MB
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11.4 MB
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| 11 - A diplomatic reverse |
19.6 MB
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11.3 MB
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9.8 MB
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| 12 - Vaulting ambition: 1 The o'erleaping |
21.9 MB
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12.5 MB
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10.9 MB
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| 13 - Vaulting ambition: 2 Alighting |
20.8 MB
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12.2 MB
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10.4 MB
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| 14 - Zeal of thine house: 1 'When Greek meets Greek' |
19.4 MB
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11.4 MB
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9.7 MB
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| 15 - Zeal of thine house: 2 'To be, or not to be' |
16.9 MB
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9.8 MB
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8.5 MB
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| 16 - Zeal of thine house: 3 'Of his necessity' |
20.7 MB
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12.6 MB
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10.4 MB
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| 17 - Zeal of thine house: 4 Raising the wind |
21.1 MB
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12.1 MB
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10.6 MB
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| 18 - Zeal of thine house: 5 At last! |
16.8 MB
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9.6 MB
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8.4 MB
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| clog_shop_pb_librivox_meta.xml | Metadata | 2.5 KB |
| clog_shop_pb_librivox_reviews.xml | Metadata | 2.0 KB |
Reviewer:
ListeninginChicago -
Subject:
Excellent!
I listened and thought it was a fun collection of stories - quite a few good characters here. And the accents are great. Yes, they may be a bit difficult to understand because they are rustic and unpolished, but that's part of the charm of the characters.
Reviewer:
Parsnip -
Subject:
Delightfully authentic
If Wagstaff means the Lancashire dialect of the spoken passages, that is exactly how the author wrote it. This is a delightful recording of high quality, both in sound and reading. Bravo, Mr. Benson! Keep up the good work!
Reviewer:
B J Lee -
Subject:
Chog Shop Chronicles
Thank you for the Chog Shop Chronicles. It was a
delightful surprise and so well read.
Reviewer:
wagstaff -
Subject:
Great Stories Read Well
The only thing I have to say in a negative vein is the reader's use of an accent that is extremely hard to comprehend. At least to me is was. I would suggest that readers not use accents in the future, particularly ones that are hard to understand.